Thank you for your request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
We can confirm that Essex County Fire & Rescue Service does hold the information you have requested. Please see below the answer to your request.
Questions and final response: For each of the calendar years 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022 please can you provide figures on the following:
Question 1 – How many formal grievances have been raised with the service by members of staff and
firefighters from an ethnic minority background regarding complaints of harassment, inappropriate
language, behaviour and assault? Inappropriate behaviour/language/conduct* by an employee
(*race discrimination or harassment)?
Response - 2021 - 1
Question 2 – How many claims have been submitted to employment tribunal regarding the above?
Response - 2022 - 1
Question 3 – How many of those claims have settled prior to a full remedy hearing?
Response - Nil
Question 4 - What was the settlement figure in each claim?
Response - Nil
Question 5 - How many of those settlements involved the signing of a non-disclosure agreement?
Response - Nil
Question 6 - How many grievance/discipline cases have been brought by the service in relation to
Inappropriate behaviour/language/conduct* by an employee (*race discrimination or harassment)?
Response - Nil
Incident and other data is published on our transparency site. For further information please follow this link. Incident Data (essex-fire.gov.uk)